This is an analysis of the poem Fears In Solitude that begins with:

A green and silent spot, amid the hills,
A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdXefbgfhiajakdflmbjnXaha ogejhoafpqeddrfdajdbkafdmnaajrbkecaffmjfkjshbfjforjibmdbdX bajleXaXbgbXrmkadkajleacnfbjasmjmXajmadbqera eefaXeajalqbkoifakdafdlor jjbXmhoXfntjtsqbabeeaar jerjleaeraacbnaeoedesai aXrijb jXeeefejiaohdrsrffjajqtfjebfpj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,58,44,25,23,23,6,30,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010101 01110110101 1101110101 0111011101 11011101001 1100010101 1111010101 1101011100 1101110101 1101010111 0101110011 1101010101 1110111101 0101100100 1111010111 0101110101 1111111101 1001011101 0100110111 1001100101 11100101001 1101010101 1101010111 01010001010 1101010001 0011110101 1101111101 1101110001 1100010101 1101111101 0101010111 1101010111 0101011111 11111111010 01111101101 0101010101 1101011111 1101010101 10101100101 101101011 1101011100 1101010100 1011000101 01010101010 0101011101 1010100101 1101011101 1101010100 10111001111 11010110011 11001110111 0110010011 0101011111 110100100110 01010101010 0101010100 0111010101 110011100100 1111011101 1000010101 0100011001 11001010111 1111010011 0101011101 1101001101 11010111101 1111001111 1101111100 0101110111 1100010101 0101010011 1110011101 11111101001 1011101101 1111010101 1011010011 0101011101 1111110100 1111010101 1101011101 1001110101 1001010010 1010110101 101111101 110101001010 111001 10000010111 11011111001 01010011111 0101110011 0111010001 0101010111 1011111101 1011010100 1111110001 01111101010 1001101011 1000000110 1101010100 1101111111 0101010111 1101010101 11000001010 1111110101 0101110111 1101110101 1111111101 0101011101 0111110101 01011110101 010100010010 01010100101 11000100101 1111011101 11110101011 1101010101 1111010111 1001010101 1001000101 0101011001 1101010101 11010010111 1111110111 1101111101 1101111100 1101010100 1110001111 0100111101 0101010100 01110 10000011101 1011111101 1111010111 1001010011 0011011101 1101110101 1101010101 11101101101 1111010101 01010011101 11010110101 01011011101 11011101001 0101011100 10011100001 1011001101 0111011111 1111010111 100101001010 1101110101 1011111101 1011111101 1001010101 0100010111 1101010 10000000111 1101110111 1101101100 11111101100 1101110100 1101010111 1111011011 1001010110 1001010001 11010101010 1001001001 1111110001 1101110001 1111010101 0100110001 1100010100 1111111100 0111011100 11011101011 1001010011 1011011100 1101011100 100110 10101011101 1111011101 11110111110 0101010101 0101010101 11010011101 0101001101 1101011101 11111111110 0110111101 1111011111 11011101001 1101010101 1101001010 110111001 1101010101 01110001010 1111110011 10000110101 1101011011 11010010001 1101111101 1001111 1000000000111 11001011101 1100010100 1101111101 00101111101 00111101001 1101011101 0110100101 0111010001 1101011100 1001010111 1101111101 1011110101 1011111101 0101111101 1111010111 1011010100 0101010101 01010101001 1101010100 0111010001 1101110100 0100011100 01000110101 111010101 11101100111 10011010011 1101010011 0111010111 11101010101 1101110011 01001111101 1101110100 1101010111 0101110001 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 222
  • Amount of lines: 237
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, and, to, all, image, if, as, us, with, thy, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, we, the, as, all, in are repeated.

    The author used the same word image at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines awhile, told are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases peace, farewell connect the lines.

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